At the time of the incident, Spears's vehicle was surrounded with photographers, and in all the furore, one of these fellows had his foot squashed. A report by Los Angeles County prosecutors described "a lot of noise and confusion" at the scene, with Spears "driving at an extremely slow rate of speed and in a straight path".
After examining police records and a video of the incident, deputy district attorney Joseph D Shidler said that the "only way the victim's foot could have been where the video indicates it to be was by the victim placing it in that location".
The photographer filed a criminal complaint against Spears in early May, almost six months after the injury was sustained. The victim was not named in the prosecutors' report.
While the injured paparazzo may have been fishing for publicity, a court settlement or just a quality photo, we like to imagine he had something more modest in mind - a tyre-crushed foot is, after all, a semi-permanent kind of autograph.
See Also
